the stories that shape that we hear on our t.v. a deadly disaster hits the u.s. just days before the presidential vote we'll look at how the election is now defined dollar just by the two main candidates but the devastation of superstorm sandy as well. in the absence of democracy greece is governed by her two characters the greek whistleblowers message has been backed by thousands of journalists in the country claiming the government is muting those exposing its wrongdoings. and russia claims washington is derailing peace efforts in syria by urging the opposition to continue fighting as rebels face accusations of a war crime after a brutal video comes to light. the

word hard to live from moscow ten am in the russian capital i'm marina joshie now just as the u.s. was about to be sucked up into a political vortex in the last week before the presidential vote the country was hit by a devastating and deadly superstorm tearing into the eastern seaboard sandy also tore away the candidates plans was rallies canceled them early voting disrupted archies more in a fortnight now takes a look out the role the swirling disaster has played and the final rush of the presidential race. she was a storm the size of europe and it might be a game changer for america's upcoming u.s. presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing eight and a half million homes and businesses to lose power president barack obama canceled

campaign appearances to handle the superstorm the election will take care of itself next week right now. our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response by a lot of faith and fema i think they'll do ok that was the president. flying overhead. that's my man. vote for obama. a possibility yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter of cooperation for the president and states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in ohio into a relief a vent for sandy victims. to stop their political campaigning.

so much he says they. are still being very close thank you but while the candidates attempt to feature sandy in their quest for votes her victims are too busy piecing their lives back together below thirty ninth street has become known as the dark side of manhattan hundreds of thousands have been surviving without electricity heat and hot water for more than five days on staten island polling stations are no longer standing voting locations are being moved in parts of new jersey massachusetts connecticut and pennsylvania that are still dark and damaged by the storm some experts say the last minute scrambling will undoubtedly leave countless americans disenfranchised from democracy on november sixth it's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is been wiped out in these cities and states the voting of the elderly on

election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting in the of new yorkers on election day is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election an election now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york now today. damage done by superstorm sandy has put out about fifty billion dollars but whichever presidential candidate improves to be successful they won't be dipping into the massive military budget to help pay for it and despite the u.s. a fan spending continuing to be the world's biggest and growing numbers of observers now say this money would be better spent elsewhere in america today and how much we're spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go most americans know that this is wasteful spending here it creates

a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides creating a lot on this sort of violence around the world it seems like the legacy of us being involved in all these onus of wars over these last several years is going to be the same legacy that happened to a lot of other. cars that just they just spent themselves out of existence that happened to the soviet union in their own this is scary wars that happen to you know it happened to the british you know it happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops it and before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming debt. well we will of course continue our coverage of the u.s. elections looking at the race from different perspectives plus artes hosting a very special van this coming monday as we're exclusively bringing you the final

round of the third party candidates debate live from our washington studios. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power powerless. what if america changes trucks with election please god monday november fifth on r.t.e. . agric whistleblower arrested after publishing a list of the country's potential tax evaders was acquitted on thursday but his case was only the beginning of a string of scandals involving the country's journalists with another one remaining in custody after threatening to reveal a bailout deal fraud as artist dollar reports many greeks think the government is covering its wrongdoings by attacking those who try to make it public. is the greek government using bully boy tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of greek journalists to the streets of athens the consulate for

their outrage was the arrest of journalist konstanz vaxevanis after he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stuffing illicit gains in swiss bank accounts. we published a list that other countries had in their possession and our government was aware of it for two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy is governed by corrupt cartoon characters who deceive the public claiming their handling tax evasion vaxevanis was free of the judges decided that he did not have a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in a period of political force and political crisis the source of the crisis is it's obvious we have a stream rates of unemployment we are reaching one might say weimar republic

kind of. levels there is. there are there is more coming but when it comes to reporting on government business one senior member of the greek union of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate all quit a mess some of its own members of the frustrations have been imposed to any voice of the opposition and the media goes restricting journalists some two thousand five hundred media professionals technicians included have lost their job since last year. and those who attempt to stand up to authority and expose corruption are handcuffed we see a guy to be arrested because he revealed the names obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with the state but vaxevanis told me he won't keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names then what would he do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals they told the truth and

the elites tried for two whole years to cover up major evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable for the good the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that the democratic rights of being a road here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of a party. was agreed government keeps pushing through painful cuts the strategies being challenged by the country's court on thursday of rolled out the plan pension reforms could be unconstitutional that's as greece will reportedly have to introduce and another one hundred and sixty financial changes to please its international creditor spot investment advisor patrick young says it won't be fulfilled anyway alice in wonderland that fabulous children's book had an alice famously saying that sometimes she imagines six impossible things before breakfast well now we've got the troika of lenders and there are one hundred fifty eight

impossible cuts before breakfast for the greek economy look the greeks are in the. because ultimately they spend huge amounts of money we have terrible sympathy with the ordinary greeks on the street they are being left in a situation where they don't even have primary medical care in many cases but are we going to be able to see them manage to cover the economy or come back in many different ways of course they'll be lucky to manage to get twenty of these cuts to stick let alone one hundred fifty it's. alice in wonderland economics and a little later in the program the u.k.'s prime minister is being increasingly pushed to bid farewell to the european union trapped between the block and hostile westminster he may have to decide whether his country's membership of the club is worth the regular fees. plus while britain is struggling to make ends meet some are taking a back to basics in order to get things moving that much more in just a couple of minutes here at r.t. . now the syrian rebels have been accused of a potential war crime after

a video emerged online that the un says could be used as evidence photos apparently shows opposition fighters there raiding the soul vers who are no longer believed to be competent to tan man are called asons dogs before they are sprayed with bullets as the law on the ground and that's the head of journalist james corvet says it's a rare case that of methods of opposition forces have come into international focus . the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months and numerous documents coming out from different organization including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been conveniently buried in the headlines time and time again and even some of

the reports that didn't know some of these atrocities being committed by the rebels were almost always preface. by reports of government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway through the article time and time again so it is of course and if the hypocrisy that's underlying this and it's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west to to be on the fore is now on the side of these rebel forces. now russia has accused the us of encouraging the syrian opposition to carry on fighting against the government instead of urging political dialogue that's after washington called for a complete shake up of the opposition in syria revealing plans to bring in militants fighting on the front line but i am less marcus' papadopoulos believes the white house is unlikely to let itself just diplomatic support for the rebels the american state department are probably looking at a more direct approach to removing interest now when i say a direct approach that doesn't necessarily mean nato intervention i think we both

probably say groups of in syria the americans hasn't it or comfortable with. this even possibly american arms intelligence information one can argue that's possibly happen in a moment certainly the russian governments in recent days have alluded to that but i think in in the future it could be director more direct assistance has been given to them so it certainly will turn into a proxy war influenced by america. and very possibly some other western governments states sardonic because earlier to share the american ambassador to the united nations susan rice that she's the russian and the in particular the russian but also the chinese government of having blood on their hands well i think she needs to look closer to home survive the people that are arm in the syrian militants actually the ones that have blood on their hands in syria must be able to go far to try and compromise to try and bring a peaceful end to what is an absolutely diabolical situation. now in bahrain

a recent ban on public rallies has failed to deter protesters from taking to the streets of several towns on friday there have been reports of police brutality towards the anti-government demonstrators and the rest of those documenting the attacks but little analyst charlie a believes that unlike other arab countries human rights abuses in bahrain continue to be largely unnoticed in the western world. result dual martial law tactics that have been practiced before it's an attempt to completely squelch or squash people's uprising in fact of bahrain can we call the unfinished segment of the arab spring which is now what we now know be even stronger so. you know there's been a conservative powers in the region as well as the improve a student teacher in the air and the western patrons to have tried to completely demolish the voice of the people whom you have been here when put in the us as

human rights abuses in bahrain so here you have a clear mismatch between america's our ideals of disposing universal human rights and the reality on the grown we're human rights and selectively being enforced and our we used to block the regimes for political or not deviant motives what you have is a regional set up which is not allowing free expression i and then why is for example syria such a hot spot and body mock this is the origin of the sins of the whole arab spring narrative and we're not been able to overcome these double standards just because what reinforce the fifth fleet of the u.s. navy does not entitle it to be so brutal and repressive and get dizzy with crimes against humanity which are happening and now there are hotspot for violence and one of the first arab spring countries yemen is struggling to recover after the revolution i doubt website r.t. dot com we've got a photo reporter from the streets of the yemeni capital still in ruins after more than a year of turmoil. there will be back in just

a couple of minutes with more international news stay with us. what's the difference between a samurai sword and a blind guys walking stick well known if you're one of the cops in northern england an elderly blind architect with taser in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used in a nearby crime honest mistake because swords are often tubular and use this walking sticks more and more we hear stories like this like the handcuffed youth who was shot in the back to death or the unarmed guy in a wheelchair who got blown away by the boys in blue i understand that being in the police is rough everyone lies to you and any given day you could be shot dead so i

get it when after a long police chase someone just snaps and in all honesty fire when the police might do the same thing but it takes a certain kind of person who enjoys abusing their uniform to make the helpless suffer you can't tolerate sadists or those with napoleon complexes in the police and you know what they aren't that hard to spot in the shower because if you like to tase the elderly or shoot wheelchair bound people then you probably don't have much of a certain something but that's just my opinion. wealthy british science. sometimes. free. markets. scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy comes a report on our t.v.

government no longer represents the before the people are going to take center. oh. the way or. the. way.

she did laboratory kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on her feet leave doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach creation why you should care about humans. this is why you should care what you only argy dog. welcome back here with our team. is calling on britain to make a decision on its membership of the block as its leaders begin losing patience over the u.k.'s budget squabble david cameron is facing huge opposition in parliament on how much the country should pay for being part of the club earlier this week a number of conservative m.p.'s sided with the opposition in defying the prime minister by voting for demands to cut the money britain hands over to brussels every year cameron's deputy has already warned the budget crisis may leave britain

out of a blog and your m.p. paul natal believes frustration over bills is continually growing and the majority of the british. i want to go it alone just like the problem that you've got as our status he doesn't exist in the european union and might exist in the member countries where we're asking to cut back on almost everything we have real estate is he out the money doesn't. matter they spend more and more every single year the budget goes up a member states including states such as greece and portugal and ireland who wouldn't serious trouble will be asked to put their hands in their pockets and give multiple szell's what's wrong couldn't see blocks. of britain actually out of the states which aren't in the pudding see. so with the tune of around fifty million pounds a day just to be members of. the mega amounts of money that the street tens of billions it costs to comply with the utah directors and regulations so it's been some of the british people it's something we know happy about to look at recent

opinion polls eighty percent of people want a referendum surround sixty percent of people actually want to leave the european union altogether so the people are certainly moving away if the european union is a company that does on the chief executive role be in jail but it's not it's cruel to not to move the reason why the british people want that referendum i want to leave. now the waves all of the financial crisis keep rolling across europe bringing a man a small companies to the brink of bankruptcy but there is one man who has decided to lend a hand to those who only receive a cold shoulder from the big players and that's by founding his own bank for smith has more on that story. hello. well don't look like you did fish which is a cheeky northern charm he made his fortune selling minibuses in his hometown as burnley but instead of fancy holidays and expensive cars when the credit crisis hit dave wanted to give something back so he decided to open a bank his late two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my many

customers are coming along to me to get funded for their bosses as they have done for the last fifteen years but overnight that just. the banks just stopped lending to the to the customers and i'm thinking have it done something wrong have they made a mistake of that up at the gas. you know it's not the people that are the problem it's the banks that have the problem so i thought well i'll end of the so that's what it bank on dave he says although thanks to extensive red tape he's not actually allowed to call himself a bank and he's keen to differentiate himself from banks in other ways too he offers five percent on savings and he lends that money out to his local community and no bonuses any profits go to charity. but there just isn't a day in every town more's the pity since his isn't a model which could be rolled out nationwide in its current form but financial experts say lessons can be learnt for

a healthier banking system one point is clear and this is a point that the bank made in a way is that banking has just moved too far away from its roots and its basic need to understand. with. russia where highly leveraged list of. dates ultimate goal is to bring banking back to its roots no more faceless conglomerates where computers and mavericks make the decisions and the one percent pockets unimaginable bonuses instead local banks for local people run by the community to benefit the community it's not a new idea in fact it's how banking used to be before the megabucks and mega banks stepped in and dave still ticking to get some political support you have to take save us money and invest in real productive activity to take responsibility for

doing it which is not the way that banking currently works in his comic called. krazy we're showing the way to a better banking system which is responsible. in touch with entrepreneurship which actually could be the basis for going food there's certainly got to be some way forwards as wave after wave of scandal hits the financial sector banking on dave and others like him looks more and more attractive one of the sayings i use a lawyer people who rob banks go to prison banks who real people get paid bonuses to stop laura smith ot birmingham. while the central voting commission any ukraine has a span of counting until monday due to reported disorders in several polls the opposition is claiming the election has been blatantly rigged by the ruling party the election has also been overshadowed by scuffles between supporters of the opposition and police across the country clashes were also reported from the election commission

in kiev polls predict the ruling party of president out of college will retain its lead but lose its two thirds majority the recent results also mark the rise of the nationalist freedom party known for its anti semite and also an almost fascist statements its core of solid preliminary results in the west and the last third in kiev a city that i was told work against the nazi invasion in u.s.s.r. . now coming up we'll take a closer look at the roots of the occupy movement that's after the break here on r.t. . looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these parts no prepackaged confort but they joy of the wild these guaranteed guineas a zoology professor he works in the u.s.

and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he can find an . touched landscapes like this anywhere else in the world. if i go wrong. and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper field. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot a grizzly here by every small weaver for the bears are they have a very well i think i will have to keep an aisle when there are anger before them. so we won't go yes we shall be very quiet.

and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators but at the mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the bears peace and now the local resident to haiti's peace being disturbed here is the calories sea eagle in has a wingspan of two and a half meters it nests only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon and sea gulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here the island it has the biggest colony of seagulls in the region and the climb up was tough.

but the prize was worth it. if there was no city or to hear it with the resultant day you will have tons of people coming here just to get some only on the beach here nothing is guaranteed you have to struggle to get through a few so fred there is nothing really you can quiet oprah did you have to rely on yourself and what you back so you go for was a bear so we're you know you have to be fed well for that maybe for the wildlife here is the lack of things it is this close the better but when you stand on top of phenomenal and like this you just cantelupe wanting to share the beauty. my name is dennis i made this movie and there are

a few things you should know about me right from the jump i'm not an expert on the economy climate change or foreign policy i'm also not an expert on sustainable farming systems the history of social movements or lego's the occupy movement has experts on all those things and more but not really want to i'm happily married husband the father of truth and past the children i live on a main street in a small new england town with actual white picket fences i made this movie for you me and everyone we know in the hope that we can create a world where human need comes before corporate greed so why does it feel almost un-american to say that i think about it this way just go with me for a second here you know that scene from the oliver stone film wall street when gordon gekko played by michael douglas in a role that would win him an oscar appears at a shareholders meeting of a company or paper to defend his actions and his grotesque worldview and delivers the now famous speech where he says.